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@janderswag janderswag released this 12 Jul 00:30
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docuchat 0.5.1

Scanned paper works out of the box, labels say only what was checked, and underpowered Macs are told the truth before they download anything.

Scanned documents just work

  • The OCR engine now ships inside the app. Scanned PDFs, the bulk of a litigation file, become searchable with zero installs. No Homebrew, no Terminal, ever.
  • The release gate now uploads a real scanned page to every build and requires it to come out searchable, so this can never silently break.

Watched folders follow your scanner

  • A watched folder now picks up files in its immediate subfolders, so a scanner writing dated folders (Scans/2026-07-12/) lands automatically. Deeper nesting is deliberately not walked, and the panel says exactly that.
  • The same filename arriving in two different subfolders stays two documents.

Honest labels in Contract Review

  • "Potentially missing" is gone. A clause the checklist could not find now reads "Not located in the passages checked", in the app and in every export, because that is precisely what happened: the most relevant passages were checked and it was not found there. It is not a legal conclusion.
  • The badge no longer shouts warning-amber for what is only a maybe. Word reports carry the same honest language.
  • The real fix, per-document verification that checks every document individually before calling anything not located, ships next in 0.6.0.

Your Mac is told the truth up front

  • docuchat runs its AI entirely on your Mac, and that needs 16 GB of memory. On a smaller Mac the app now explains this in one screen and stops, instead of downloading 10.5 GB and grinding the machine to a halt. Nothing is installed or changed on a refused machine.
  • The website now states the requirement next to the download button.

Also

  • The update check and website point at the project's renamed GitHub home (docuchat.app).
  • The answer engine is untouched in this release: zero changes to answering, retrieval, or verification.

Owner click-through before publishing:

  1. A real scanned PDF reaches "ready" and is searchable.
  2. A subfolder in a watched folder is picked up.
  3. The "Not located in the passages checked" label reads right in the app and in a Word export.
  4. "Choose a folder" still opens the native picker (bridge is invisible to the headless smoke).
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